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Show WILD MAN THREATENS; TO JUMP FROM A WINDOW SILL L Dodd. a salesman, created considerable con-siderable excitement about 7:30 p. m yesterday In the Reed hotel and on Washington avenue in front of It. He was under the influence of liquor and had crawled out on to the window sill of his room in the hotel, Immediately Imme-diately over the Reed Bar. when he was first noticed by a pedestrian. His strange actions quickly dreu j a large crowd and Harry Beckett, clerk at the hotel, was notified, and with two other hotel employes he securer entrance to the room with a pass key-When key-When they attempted to capture Dodd, the man threatened to Jump from the window if they touched him He kept shouting to the crowd in the street to watch out, as he was coming down Fearful that he might carry out his threat, the hotel employes withdrew to the other side of the room and waited several minutes In an effort to coax him to return to safety Finally a happy idea BtTUCk one of them and all three retired from the room. One of them then went to the office and called Dodd on the telephone. When j he came Into the room, the hotel men rushed in and, after a struggle, cap tared him. Sergeant Layne and Patrolman William Wil-liam Brown appeared on the scene shortly afterward and took Dodd to the police station, where he was booked on a charge of drunkenness j oo |